Strata.io Stratifies the Identity Orchestration Landscape

This is the third of a series of reports on specific vendor offerings that enterprises should consider as they modernize their Identity and Access Management (IAM) foundation. In this report, we’ll review Strata.io, a company founded in 2019 that is focused on “identity orchestration” in multi-cloud environments.

With a particular focus on decoupling identities from specific Identity Providers (IDPs), the company’s approach to facilitating application modernization efforts can be quite appealing. Within multi-cloud environments, identity management table stakes such as user/subject authentication and authorization can be challenging because identities and their entitlements don’t typically translate cleanly across various cloud vendors’ security capabilities. What’s worse, previous attempts to homogenize multiple cloud security requirements into a common identity denominator have often left architects and implementers with undesirable limitations that in effect weaken security.

In this report, we explore in detail the Stata.io Maverics Identity Orchestration platform and its corresponding set of tools that help its customers achieve higher levels of cross-cloud security. We’ll then conclude with a set of pragmatic recommendations and an enterprise action plan for improving enterprise access control capabilities via Strata.io deployment.